Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…

Was Surcantine well gutted she lost the argument?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Surcantine · What happens: be, gut, lose · To what, where: Surcantine, argument

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Surcantine	cop
2	Surcantine	Surcantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gutted	advmod
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 argument	det
8	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Surcantine		tree rules
2	gut	past	Surcantine		well property	tree rules
3	lose	past	Surcantine	the argument		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she was livid and refused to send any kind of present at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 livid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 livid	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 livid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 livid	cop
5	livid	livid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 refused	cc
7	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 livid	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 send	mark
9	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 refused	xcomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 present	case
13	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	she			livid property	tree rules
2	refuse	past	she not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not send	to-infinitive	she not said here	any kind of present	all		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she stormed off in a huff and wouldn't speak to anyone for years

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stormed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stormed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stormed	nsubj
4	stormed	storm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 stormed	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 huff	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 huff	det
8	huff	huff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stormed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 speak	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 speak	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 speak	advmod
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stormed	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 anyone	case
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 speak	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm off	past	she			a huff			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	not speak speech: other	would	she not said here				year	to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but she still sent a wedding present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 sent	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 sent	advmod
6	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 present	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 present	compound
9	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	she	a wedding present			still		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, but she sulked all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sulked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sulked	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 sulked	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sulked	nsubj
5	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sulked	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past	she	all way					tree rules

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